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I will be playing 1/2 PLO live later tonight and while I've been doing studying and thinking on my own, I wanted to ask the more experienced PLO players here what they believe is the best general strategy at a low stakes live PLO game. Obviously fancy play syndrome is likely torching money at this level since I'm expecting to be facing players who usually play NLHE and will call too much for me to run any kind of ambitious bluffs.

Would it just be best to play similar to how one would play in a 1/2 NL game live? i.e. high value hands, low bluffing frequency, etc.

Of course I could be completely off base as I'm a very novice PLO player but I feel like I'm smart enough to grasp the basics pretty quickly. Let me know your thoughts! Thank you.

Oct. 8, 2018 | 9:18 a.m.

This is the first PLO video I've seen on here that I felt comfortable with. I'm playing a 1/3 streamed game at a card room in a couple weeks but Im totally new so Im trying to learn as much as I can, haha. Thank you for laying it all out so I can digest it!

Oct. 2, 2018 | 10:30 a.m.

His check seems pretty bizarre, so I honestly don't blame you as his line looks really spewy. I think when he does that you kinda just have to give him your whole stack, because at microstakes people generally play overpairs really fast.

Oct. 25, 2015 | 10:46 p.m.

At 1:10 with the 98 with 9h hand on a run out of T Qh Th 7 Ah, you decide to three barrel on the river. Can I ask what hands we expect to get folds from? It would seem to me that most of the time, villain's range here is going to consist of a lot of T-x and heart draws, possibly Ax or AQ. I do see the point that it's difficult for hero to have many bluffs here, but at the same time I think it's difficult for villain to have many weak bluff catchers. Cheers!

Oct. 25, 2015 | 10:44 p.m.

This video. Sorry to hear you're sick mate! That may be it, but it does seem like an audio muffling. In the beginning your voice is very clear, but at 0:25 the audio quality lessens. It's not a huge problem but just something I noticed.

Oct. 15, 2015 | 10 p.m.

I like your reasoning and content, only criticism I have actually has nothing to do with the poker but maybe you could get yourself a better mic? The audio quality is really muffled and I have to strain to hear you sometimes. Cheers!

With a few people sitting out, I felt like AJo was a reasonable open with appx 25bb (I late reg'd). Everyone folds to the BB, who makes the call. The flop in my opinion is one that I can both c-bet and check behind, although I felt that at my stack depth I would fold to too many turn stabs that weren't on an A/J/heart if I checked behind. I c-bet and villain calls. Turn is pretty interesting in that I hit top pair and have a nut flush draw, however here is where I feel as though I absolutely butchered this hand. Im not quite sure what to do here. I am pretty heavily armored vs straight draws given my nut flush draw, which cuts down on his potential outs. Im now beating pocket pairs (save full house ones) up to TT, tho I feel I woulda gotten jammed on by pocket pair combos on flop. So this is kind of a situation where Im beating a lot but cant get much worse to call. Should i have check called, and decided on river? I feel like no matter what Im going broke in this exact scenario.

Sept. 10, 2015 | 12:33 a.m.

I will definitely look more deeply into this! Both of your comments make a lot of sense. I had a feeling I wasn't going to be doing any calculations at the table, but I can see how it would translate, such as using a HUD online and knowing how to react to certain stats, and then going to play live and having a basic feel of how to react to different tendencies. Thank you both a lot!

Sept. 9, 2015 | 11:34 p.m.

Looking at the equations seems pretty reasonable from an analytic standpoint, but how do you suppose one would approach these situations in real time? We obv dont have enough time to run the math for each individual hand, especially when multi tabling. Is this more of a theory kind of analysis, or is there a way to implement this while playing? Thanks for the vids.